Valentina
I was on Margaret the very next instant, my shoulder driving hard into her stomach and sending her reeling backwards. I scooped up my other stake and started slashing at every part of her face I could reach, ignoring her scratches and punches to my own body.
She screamed, giving up on attacking and resorting to defense, crossing her arms over her face, which was crisscrossed with jagged gashes and dark vampire blood oozing slowly. Still, I kept at it, until she managed to get her knees underneath me and flung me across the room. Luckily, I ran into a few people before I hit the wall, so I wasn't knocked unconscious. But the move had knocked the wind out of me, and I sat at an odd angle against the wall, gasping for breath and gripping my throbbing head.
Margaret stood, holding
